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Archive for February 2012

What is your “magic number” of success? How many orders shipped, new clients signed or dollars earned would it take you make you jump for joy in your office? Success, even when applied to our businesses, is a very personal definition. For instance, having a sufficient (and steady) workload to justify hiring a new employee [...]

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As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be [...]

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The latest version of this modestly-priced vector illustration application for the creation of logos, posters and technical drawings adds enhanced object editing capabilities….

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Editor’s Note: Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO, posted on his blog about Mozilla and the mobile Web API evolution. This is reposted below:
Ragavan Srinivasan’s post about the forthcoming Mozilla Marketplace for Open Web Apps inspired me to write about Mozilla’s surging Web and Device API standards work.
A bit of background. Mozilla has always contributed to web [...]

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This morning in the United States, the White House announced a new “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” as part of the effort to improve consumers’ online privacy. As I’ve mentioned before, Microsoft is actively participating in the industry initiative for Tracking Protection at the W3C to produce Web standards for online privacy.
The Tracking Protection Working [...]

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684 commits landed in WebKit’s repository over the course of last week, bringing several new features and improvements such as a color picker for Web Inspector, two new CSS properties and the “translate” attribute for all HTML elements.
Brian Grinstead’s color picker is now enabled by default in WebKit nightlies, following some slight polishing. To aid the undo and redo [...]

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At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller (@schill) uncovered HTML5 audio’s dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their place. Then he wowed the audience with a couple of spectacular live demos that you won’t want [...]

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Today, we’re happy to announce the release candidate of Sencha Touch 2 as well as our native packaging for Windows and Mac.
Download Sencha Touch 2 RC   View Release Notes
Six full-featured example apps
To provide some inspiration, we’re shipping six combination examples written by the Sencha Touch core team. Each uses best practices to help you get [...]

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Beyond Design, in partnership with Spectrum Brands, was honored with a “Best in Category” Housewares Design Award for their design of the Remington Pro Power Series Haircut and Beard Trimmer.
The product won the award in the Personal, Health, & Garment Care category.

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In light of last’s month post outing now infamous (and new Internet meme) Ocean Marketing for plagiarizing from this very blog, I thought it was important to stress the importance of original content, which is imperative for online marketing success. Not only the foundation of good SEO, content also feeds your social media marketing campaign, [...]

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